Following up on the French TAS noun source for Proudhon from my previous post, I was able to find direct evidence of Proudhon having read a French book on the history of German philosophy which includes thesis-antithesis-synthesis in a direct quotation from Schelling, as well as a section on Hegel. So, against Mueller’s story, here’s…

In his 1958 article “The Hegel Legend of ‘Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis’”, Gustav Mueller delivers what the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy today describes as the classic criticism of the misattribution of thesis-antithesis-synthesis schema to Hegel. This article, to my understanding, set a precedent about the history of the misattribution which goes largely unnoticed or unchallenged today. It contains…